7. "He lifted the slice of cake and bit into it and turned the page. The old musty album with its foxed and crumbling paper seemed to breathe a reek of the vault, turning up one by one these dead faces with their wan and loveless gaze out toward the spinning world, masks of incertitude before the cold glass eye of the camera or recoiling before this celluloid immortality or faces simply staggered into gaga by the sheer velocity of time. Old distaff kin coughed up out of the vortex, thin and cracked and macled and a bit redundant. The landscapes, old backdrops, redundant too, recurring unchanged as if they inhabited another medium than the dry pilgrims shored up on them. Blind moil in the earth's nap cast up in an eyeblink between becoming and done. I am, I am. An artifact of prior races."Author: Cormac McCarthy

8. "Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control."Author: Daniel Johns

9. "I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone."Author: David Friedman

10. "Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was."Author: Don Henley

11. "I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album."Author: Donna Douglas

12. "A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event."Author: Freddie Mercury

13. "The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI."Author: Georgie Fame

14. "You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings."Author: Glen Hansard

15. "It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague."Author: Heidi Cullinan

16. "Whenever I get dumped, I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it around my neck so it's like a Superman cape, take off my shoes so I can slide across the room, and...get a fake mic, like a celery stick or a pen, and I play any record that features the vocalist Ronnie James Dio. And you can just pretend you're Dio, because on every album he does, he has minimum one, usually three, *EVIL WOMAN LOOK OUT!*- songs. And if you wanna point like Dio, it's a three-finger point. (heavy metal voice) 'The exit is that way. Evil LURKS! Evil lurks in twilight! Dances in the DARK! Evil woman! Just WALK AWAY!"Author: Henry Rollins

17. "After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted."Author: Huey Lewis

18. "Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized."Author: James Wolcott

19. "Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums."Author: Jason Newsted

20. "I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my stamp albums. I believed they contained his unspoken words, which one day would explain everything. I have not changed. Now I explore my memories, trying to discover the substructure hidden beneath my past actions, searching for the link to connect them all."Author: Jerzy Kosiński

21. "I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen."Author: Johnny Ramone

22. "I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about."Author: Judy Collins

23. "For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album."Author: Justin Guarini

24. "Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words."Author: Kenny G

25. "But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums."Author: Liane Moriarty

26. "He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes."Author: Linda McCartney

27. "Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity."Author: LL Cool J

28. "I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?'"Author: Mario Cantone

29. "I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album."Author: Melissa Joan Hart

30. "I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to."Author: Nancy Sinatra

31. "You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something."Author: Paul Kantner

32. "You can curse the moonCurse the day your're bornBut the pilot of your plane is youWe're all in this world, by a greater plan Look up, lift your wings, Because you canThe Light Said (The First Song album)"Author: Phyllis Wheaton

33. "My life is an open book; at least this photo album".~R. Alan Woods [2013]"Author: R. Alan Woods

34. "I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am."Author: Randy Houser

35. "My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world."Author: Reba McEntire

36. "My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through."Author: Rebecca Ferguson

37. "What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!"Author: Renita D'Silva

38. "How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people."Author: Richard Avedon

39. "Bob Dylan is my idol. Everybody has that person growing up that made them see things a little differently than they did before, Dylan is that guy for me. My dad gave me the 'Blonde on Blonde' album on cassette tape when I was seven or eight. It took me a while to get into Dylan's vibe, but once I did, I never looked back."Author: Richard Harmon

40. "I first saw 'West Side Story' on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it, bought the album, and memorised the whole thing."Author: Russ Tamblyn

41. "I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album."Author: Scotty McCreery

42. "I don't really cringe over any of my albums."Author: Sheryl Crow

43. "There is a shipwreck between your ribs and it took eighteen yearsfor me to understand how to understand your kind of drowning.There are people who cannot be held quietly. There are screamsthat are never externalized. If I looked at the photo albums of yourpast twenty years, all I would find are decibel meter graphs ofphone calls and the intensity of your silence as you sat smoking cigarettes in the garage.There is a shipwreck between your ribs. You are a box withfragile written on it, and so many people have not handled youwith care.And for the first time, I understand that I will never knowhow to apologize for beingone of them."Author: Shinji Moon

44. "Borderline means you're one of those girls……who walk around wearing long sleeves in the summer because you've carved up your forearms over your boyfriend. You make pathetic suicidal gestures and write bad poetry about them, listen to Ani DiFranco albums on endless repeat, end up in the emergency room for overdoses, scare off boyfriends by insisting they tell you that they love you five hundred times a day and hacking into their email to make sure they're not lying, have a police record for shoplifting, and your tooth enamel is eroded from purging. You've had five addresses and eight jobs in three years, your friends are avoiding your phone calls, you're questioning your sexuality, and the credit card companies are after you. It took a lot of years to admit that I was exactly that girl, and that the diagnostic criteria for the disorder were essentially an outline of my life."Author: Stacy Pershall

45. "There are more guys than girls in jazz.Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few)but it doesn't matter because, for me, jazz trumpet is all about one guyMiles Davis.He made this famous album in 1959called Kind of Bluewhich is kind of, always,how I feel.That album gets into your bonesgoes and goesstarts, hesitates, reaches out, feelsfor the music, the sound, the thing you want to change.Always grasping for the unattainable makes youkind of excited,kind of sorry."Author: Stasia Ward Kehoe

46. "There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album."Author: Stephen Malkmus

47. "Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse artistic and commercial value, but it's just a fact that some kid who rips an album for free isn't going to give it the same attention he would if it cost him ten bucks. At what point does convenience become spiritual indolence? I realize this makes me sound like an old fart, but sometimes I get nostalgic for the days when the universe of recorded sound wasn't at our fingertips, when we had to hunt and wait and - horror of horrors - do without, when our longing for a particular record or song made it feel sacred."Author: Steve Almond

48. "I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce."Author: Steve Jones

49. "With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit."Author: Young Buck

50. "I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old."Author: Zakk Wylde

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When does real love begin?At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines, perfumes; then spasm and honey, fever, fatigue, warmth, currents of liquid fire, feast and orgies; then dreams, visions, candlelight, flowers, pictures; then images out of the past, fairy tales, stories, then pages out of a book, a poem; then laughter, then chastity. At what moment does the knife wound sink so deep that the flesh begins to weep with love?At first power, power, then the wound, and love, and love and fears, and the loss of the self, and the gift, and slavery. At first I ruled, loved less; then more, then slavery. Slavery to his image, his odor, the craving, the hunger, the thirst, the obsession." Author: Anaïs Nin